flidder
(ˈflɪdə(r))
Also flither, flitter.
A local name for the limpet.
| 1766 Pennant Zool. (1769) III. 195 The next baits in esteem are..limpets (called here [Scarborough] Flidders). 1867 M. S. Lovell Edible Molluscs 120 In the Isle of Man..they [limpets] are known by the name of ‘flitters’. 1876 Whitby Gloss., s.v. ‘He sticks like a flither.’ |